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Prayers and sympathy to you & your family and all who love her. I wish they'd all go quietly and peacefully at home in their sleep but, the reality is most often, we have to make "the decision" and although it may not feel like it, doing so is really the final kindness we can give them.

We'll the inevitable time has come. After 13 + years of companionship we have decided to put her to sleep tomorrow. Her cancer has metastasized and spread to her lungs. It's not an easy choice but it has to be done before she becomes more miserable.

This place needs an unlike button for times like this.

I'm so sorry for you and your family. This is the hardest thing about having dogs, they just don't live long enough.

Howard NiemiYou really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013

It's tough to let them go.
This is a place that understands your pain.

"The bird hunter watches only the dog, and always knows where the dog is, whether or not visible at the moment. The dog’ nose is the bird hunters eye. Many hunters who carry a shotgun in season have never learned to watch the dog, or interpret his reaction to scent."
Aldo Leopold, Round River